TY - JOUR
T1 - Three decades of research on practice transfer in multinational firms
T2 - Past contributions and future opportunities
AU - Fortwengel, Johann
AU - Gutierrez Huerter O, Gabriela
AU - Kostova, Tatiana
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Pallavi Jain for her assistance funded through the King's Undergraduate Research Fellowship, and Ulf Andersson for his editorial guidance as well as two anonymous JWB reviewers for their developmental comments, which have helped us to improve the paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors
PY - 2023/4/1
Y1 - 2023/4/1
N2 - The cross-border transfer of practices lies at the heart of how multinational enterprises (MNEs) coordinate their international business activities. Research on transfer has increased substantially over the last three decades and now constitutes a well-established literature. For a systematic analysis, we review a sample of 167 articles published in 18 top journals. We structure these past contributions in a ‘Practice Transfer Framework.’ Our mapping reveals some limitations and blind spots in existing theoretical and methodological approaches. Beyond more conventional extensions, we offer several ideas that could qualitatively elevate research on transfer, commensurate with the paradigms of 21st century global business.
AB - The cross-border transfer of practices lies at the heart of how multinational enterprises (MNEs) coordinate their international business activities. Research on transfer has increased substantially over the last three decades and now constitutes a well-established literature. For a systematic analysis, we review a sample of 167 articles published in 18 top journals. We structure these past contributions in a ‘Practice Transfer Framework.’ Our mapping reveals some limitations and blind spots in existing theoretical and methodological approaches. Beyond more conventional extensions, we offer several ideas that could qualitatively elevate research on transfer, commensurate with the paradigms of 21st century global business.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148344657&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jwb.2023.101430
DO - 10.1016/j.jwb.2023.101430
M3 - Review article
SN - 1090-9516
VL - 58
JO - JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS
JF - JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS
IS - 3
M1 - 101430
ER -